Merge pull request #179 from xexyl/1988-spinellis

1988/spinellis/.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 prog.c
 spinellis
+spinellis.alt

1988/spinellis/Makefile

@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ OBJ= ${PROG}.o
 DATA= spinellis.data
 TARGET= ${PROG}
 #
-ALT_OBJ=
+ALT_OBJ= ${PROG}.alt.o
-ALT_TARGET=
+ALT_TARGET= ${PROG}.alt
 
 
 #################
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ ${PROG}: ${PROG}.c
 alt: data ${ALT_TARGET}
 	@${TRUE}
 
+${PROG}.alt: ${PROG}.alt.c
+	${CC} ${CFLAGS} -Wno-implicit-function-declaration $< -o $@ ${LIBS}
+	@while read -r r; do echo $$r ; done | ./${PROG}.alt
+
 # data files
 #
 data: ${DATA}

1988/spinellis/README.md

@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 
 	make all
 
-and then type a C program into followed by EOF two times (`^D^D`).
+and then type a C program into followed by EOF (usually `^D`, ctrl-d).
-
-NOTE: this entry will not compile with clang. Also be advised that gcc in macOS
-is actually clang so this will not work even with the default compiler in macOS.
 
+[Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) made a version (also
+one-line) for clang. See the alternative code section below for how to use.
+Thank you Cody for your assistance!
 
 ## Try:
 
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ is actually clang so this will not work even with the default compiler in macOS.
 	    printf("Hello world\n");
 	}
 	^D
-	^D
 	./spinellis
 
 	make clobber all
@@ -35,23 +34,39 @@ is actually clang so this will not work even with the default compiler in macOS.
 		printf("%d\n", i);
 	}
 	^D
+	./spinellis
+
+## Alternative code:
+
+For clang try the alt code like:
+
+	make clobber alt
+	#include <stdio.h>
+	main()
+	{
+	    puts("Hello world\n");
+	}
 	^D
 	./spinellis
 
 
-## Judges' comments
+
+## Judges' comments:
 
 We enjoyed this entry this year, however in the future programs must be able to
 be compiled from within a Makefile without the need of human intervention.
 
-The author originally wrote:
+Meanwhile Cody was twisted enough to point out (though to be fair he felt sick
+doing this) that with a slight modification this entry can be C++ instead. We don't
+thank him for this ghastly point! :-)
 
-    This program can be configured to do almost everything.
+## Author's comments:
-    The configuration is done during compile time by typing
+
-    in, C code, that one would like the program to perform.
+This program can be configured to do almost everything.  The configuration is
-    A trivial example is given in the `how to compile' section
+done during compile time by typing in, C code, that one would like the program
-    but the possibilities are clearly limited only by your
+to perform.  A trivial example is given in the `how to compile' section but the
-    imagination and programming skills.
+possibilities are clearly limited only by your imagination and programming
+skills.
 
 ## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
 

1988/spinellis/spinellis.alt.c

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+main(){system("gcc -x c - -o spinellis");}